One SSD Vs. Two In RAID: Which Is Better?

[Gregs]

Thought this would be of interest: See link to article on Tom's Guide

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html

[BernardLanguillier]

It makes sense. In the end, simplicity is almost always the best option for global productivity.

Even if you were to save a few sec at each open with a Raid 0, think how the time you will waster when the raid array goes wrong (not "if", "when").

cheers,
Bernard

[francois]

Thought this would be of interest: See link to article on Tom's Guide

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html

Thanks for the article… Interesting, as it goes beyond synthetic benchmarks.

[Justan]

Another thanks for the post.

The article was well done but unfortunately limited in scope. Even still, they showed as has other similar tests that a single higher capacity SSD will outperform a raid 0 array using 2 smaller capacity drives. This is not really news.

I’d love to see a similar test but done to show optimal raid 5 array using SSD. RAID 5 arrays do not deliver a notable speed gain until there are at least 4 drives in the array. I dunno if SSD drives would aid or hinder this kind of array, but generally with RAID 5 one gets redundancy, and with enough drives in place, significantly increased performance.